Improvement in gig-saddle trees



l. BAUER.

Gig SaddIe-Trees-v No; 136.205. PatemedFebJas.

Y @Hummm UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

BATH AND JACOB H. THEBERATH, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEME-NT IN GIG-SADDLE TREES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N0. 136,205.,- dated February 25, 1873.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN BAUER, of Newark, inthe county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and Improved Gig-Saddle Tree, ot which the following is a specihcation:

Figure l represents a longitudinal section of my improved gig-saddle tree. Fig. 2 is a top` view, partly in section, of the same; and Fig. 3, a transverse section on the line c c, Fig. 1.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

This invention has forits object to improve the construction of gig-saddles by simplifying the inode of attaching the skirts or flaps of the same, and to also increase the strength of the trees.

Heretofore gi g-saddle trees have been made of single metal plates, over which the flaps or skirts are placed to be covered by the jockcys. It is a matter of considerable diflculty and requiring great skill properly to apply the skirt to theplate so it will bein line, and properly to fit it with the back-band into the recess, which is usually formed on top of said plate, so as just to lill such recess. It. is, moreover, a matter of great difficulty to lit the jockey Vupon the skirt and produce a good job when the surface of the skirt is not quite smooth,

' owing to the depression in the plate. Moreover, the process of tacking or nailing the skirt to the plate (the present Inode of connecting the two) is tedious and difficult to j perforin. A l Theinvention consists in interposingbetween the skirt and jockey'of a saddle a `one-piece metallic plate with pendent pins, as hereinafsurface for the reception ot' the saddle-strap,

not shown, but which strap is attached to it in the ordinary or suitable manner. B is the skirt or flap, placed upon the plate A and covering the same. C is a metal plate, placed upon the skirt or iiap and connected by pins a a with the plate A. These pins, passing through the flap B at an obliqueangle, hold the same in place without further fastening. Therefore it is only necessary on a gaged 1uachine or otherwise to punch the skirt at Ythe places where the pins c are to pass through it, which will insure t-he proper adj ustment ofthe flap. D is the upper leather or jockey. lt-

covers the plate O, and is held in place by the fastening of the top piece or saddle-seat E, and also by the turretfasteniug.

This plate C is my invention. By its usel the iap can be properly applied by unskilled l persons, and a perfect finish will be insured without effort.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent'- The one-piece plate G provided with rigidlyattached pins a placed at an oblique angle to the faces thereof and applicable to skirt B and plate A, in the manner and for the purpose described.

, JOHN BAUER.

Witnesses:

T. B; MosHEE, C. SEDGWIGK. 

